In a recent planning meeting we discussed culture: the changing culture of PACES. Five of us present had two or more PACES graduates and one in attendance WAS a PACES graduate. We reminisced about the “good old days” when Pre-Paces-Panic day (the day before the...

Are you a classical educator? Do you believe in the classical education model? Are you pursuing classical education? Often educators step into a stream and allow the current to carry them along. Although well intentioned, educators sometimes leave their original...

Male and female students interested in the gymansium aspect of Classical Education will be excited to know that we have an opportunity to form two/three PAideia sponsored golf teams. A golf coach who works with homeschooling students in the Kingwood area is willing...

Starting Tuesday the HSC (first and second year high school students) will be writing a process paper. You may remember the famous ‘how to speech’ of your youth. In preparing to teach the paper I was looking to websites, diagrams, and other ‘mature’ learning...

One puzzling idea I heard at the recent Classical Education Conference was to treat my students as my friends. Granted, I am sometimes sarcastic to my students, sometimes too lenient, sometimes sensitive, sometimes complacent, and sometimes ‘chummy’. However, I have...

“Today your children are drinking of Christian Education through a straw while they are drinking in the modern culture from a fire hydrant.” This statement, spoken by David Hicks, summarized the Classical Conference at Our Saviour Lutheran entitled What does Jerusalem...